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1 RI Americas 2014: Long-term, sustainable capitalism December 9th &10th, Bloomberg MPR Auditorium, New York Conference Report

2 RI Americas 2014: Long-term, sustainable capitalism December 9th &10th, Bloomberg MPR Auditorium, New York Partner Co-Sponsors Associate Sponsors Lanyard Sponsor Mobile App Sponsor Charging Station Sponsor Networking Break Sponsors

3 RI Americas 2014 attracted 318 delegates from 178 companies By Company: 2 Investing Initiative 30% Coalition Aberdeen Asset Management Access to Medicine Index Advent International AFL-CIO Office of Investment AFSC AGF Investments AllianceBernstein Altrinsic Global Advisors APG Asset Management Appomattox Ardsley Partners ARISE - ARISTA Babcock Consulting BAML Bank of Montreal Barclays BlackRock BNP Paribas Investment Partners Boston Common Asset Management Breckinridge Capital Advisors Broadridge Financial Solutions Brown University BSR Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec California State Treasurer s Office CalSTRS Cambridge Associates Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Caravel Management CDP Cemex Ceres CFA Institute Christopher Reynolds Foundation Citi Citibank Citigroup ClearBridge Investments Columbia Business School Columbia Law School Columbia University Community Capital Management Cornerstone Capital Credit Agricole CIB DC Water Deloitte Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Deutsche Bank Domini Social Investments DUMAC EcoAlpha Asset Management EDF EIRIS ESG Analytics European Investment Bank Export Development Canada EY F.B. Heron Foundation Fannie Mae First State Investments Framework Glass Lewis Goldman Sachs Groupe LFPI GSAM Harvard Management Company Higdon Partners Hirtle Callaghan ICCR ICMA I-DEV International IFC Impax Asset Management Integriti Capital ISS John Hancock Financial Services Johns Hopkins SAIS JP Morgan JPMorgan Chase Just Capital Kepos Capital KKR KPMG Lazard Asset Management Legg Mason Macquarie Group Manulife John Hancock Mellon Capital Mercer Investment Consulting Mercy Investment Services Mike Krzus Consulting Miller/Howard Investments Moody's Corp. Morgan Stanley MSCI By type of company: Asset owners 22% (pension funds, public funds, endowments, foundations etc) Service providers & other participants 37% MSCI ESG Research NEI Investments Neuberger Berman New York City Comptroller's Office New York City Mayor s Office New York Common Retirement Fund New York Quarterly Meeting Society of Friends New York State Comptroller's Office Newport Board Group Northern Trust Norwegian School of Economics NRDC Oddo Securities One Planet Ventures Ontario Securities Commission Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Ortelius Ventures Parametric Portfolio Associates Paul Ellis Consulting Pax World Investments PEMEX Perella Weinberg Partners PRI Initiative Preventable Surprises PwC Quotient Investors Ramirez & Co RBC Global Asset Management RBC Wealth Management Regency Centers RepRisk Rob Lake Advisors RobecoSAM Rockefeller Asset Management Rockefeller Brothers Fund Rockefeller Foundation Russell Investments S-Network ESG Solutions S&P Dow Jones Indices Sarah Cleveland Consulting SEIU Silver Lake Capital Simpson Thacher & Bartlett SinCo Standard Chartered Stanford Management Company Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Sustainable Insight Capital Management Sustainable Investments Institute Sustainalytics T. Rowe Price T&D Asset Management Terra Verde The Conference Board The Leaders Edge The New School The United Church of Canada TIAA-CREF Trillium Asset Management Trucost TWU Local 100 UAW Retiree Medical Trust UBS UC Office of the CIO UN Global Compact University of Maryland University of Washington US SIF UUA ValueEdge Advisors Vesta Vigeo Walden Asset Management Water Asset Management Wells Fargo Westfield Capital Management Company Williams College Investment Office World Bank Treasury World Business Council for Sustainable Development Zurich Insurance Group Asset managers & financial services companies 41% 3

4 CONFERENCE REPORT December 2014 Agenda - Day one, Tuesday 9th December 2014 Agenda - Day two, Wednesday 10th December :30am-9:00am Networking Breakfast and Registration 8:30am-9:00am Networking Breakfast and Registration 9:00am-9:10am 9:10am-9:30am Welcome to RI Americas Hugh Wheelan, Managing Editor, Responsible Investor Keynote Presentation Eric Wetlaufer, Senior Managing Director & Global Head of Public Market Investments, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) RI Insight: Decarbonise 9:00am-9:30am Keynote Presentation - Bob Litterman, Chairman, Risk Committee, Kepos Capital 9:30am-10:30am Plenary: Long-term investing and fiduciary duty: anachronisms in a world of high speed trading? Does long-term investing have any sense in a world of increasing short-termism, and if so, how? How are definitions of fiduciary duty evolving and do they mean institutional investors should be taking into account longer-term financial and social value drivers? Should long-term investors be taking more of a stance against short-termism and high speed trading? Robert W. Dannhauser, Head, Capital Markets Policy, CFA Institute Eric Wetlaufer, Senior Managing Director & Global Head of Public Market Investments, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) Will Oulton, Global Head of Responsible Investment, First State Investments Remy Briand, Managing Director, Global Head of Equity Research, MSCI Moderator: Rob Lake, Principal, Rob Lake Advisors 10:30am-11:15am Morning Networking Break 11:15am-12:15pm Plenary: Driving sustainability through long-term investment stakes: How do longer-term asset strategies truly ensure that sustainability is at the heart of their allocation? How is it verified and reported, and can it add value? MaryJane McQuillen, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Environment, Social and Governance Investment Program, ClearBridge Investments Mamadou-Abou Sarr, Senior Vice President, Global Head of ESG, Northern Trust Asset Management Lorenzo Berho, Chief Executive Officer, Vesta Marc Robert, Chief Operating Officer, Water Asset Management Moderator: Michael Jantzi, Chief Executive Officer, Sustainalytics 12:15pm-1:15pm 1:15pm-2:15pm 2:15pm-2:35pm 2:35pm-3:35pm Networking Lunch Responsible corporate and investor reporting: what information is required, and what makes sense? There is a revolution under way in corporate reporting (stock exchange listing, integrated reporting, sustainability accounting) but where is it headed in the short to medium term? What level of corporate information is useful for investors, and how? For their part, investors are now under more pressure to report themselves (PRI Reporting & Framework Assessment, NGO campaigning): how will the future look for asset owner, advisor and manager transparency? Mike Krzus, Integrated reporting consultant, Co-author of One Report and The Integrated Reporting Movement Alka Banerjee, Managing Director, Strategy and Global Equity Indices, S&P Dow Jones Indices Divya Mankikar, Vice President, Trucost John Schaetzl, Member of the Supervisory Board, Access to Medicine Foundation Moderator: John Hodges, Director, Financial Services, BSR Keynote Presentation - Peter Grauer, Chairman, Bloomberg LP How long will it take for North American companies to have 30% women boards? How should investors evaluate gender gap on their investee Boards? The 30% Club recently launched its US branch with a list of heavyweight signatories. It joins efforts by the Thirty Percent Coalition to corral companies to do better on gender diversity. Canadian regulators, prompted by investors, have adopted strict legislation that will give investors a more transparent view of investee corporates' efforts to increase the number of women on their boards and in their senior management. What targets can we expect to see and what are the barriers to progress? Is a quota the way to go? Some investors have produced quantitative evidence that corporates with a proportion of women Board members produce better returns. Is this causation or a fluke? How should investors be weighing up the potential for boards to reflect a mixed consumer market where change can be fast and appropriate company response critical. Vicki Kramer, President, Thirty Percent Coalition Joe Keefe, President & CEO. Pax World Management; CEO of Pax Ellevate Management Paul Schneider, Manager, Corporate Governance, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Maureen Jensen, Executive Director and Chief Administrative Officer, Ontario Securities Commission Moderator: : Zach Oleksiuk, Head, Americas Corporate Governance & Responsible Investment, BlackRock 9:30am-10:30am Plenary: Institutional investors and the carbon conundrum US institutions (pension funds, foundations, cities, universities and endowments) are faced with a multiplying campaign pressing them to review their massive fossil fuel investments. At the same time, there are huge question marks over the country s future energy mix and new climate and energy standards. How should investors be thinking strategically about their exposure to carbon in all of its forms. Bob Litterman, Chairman, Risk Committee, Kepos Capital Geeta Aiyer, President and Founder, Boston Common Asset Management Wendy Hershey, Principal, Mercer Investment Consulting Moderator: Eric Roston, Sustainability Editor, Bloomberg 10:30am-11:15am Networking Break - Sponsored by Domini Social Investments 11:15am-12:15pm Testing the divestment of fossil fuels: viable investment strategy or just a moral imperative? Several high profile institutional investors have recently divested their fossil fuel holdings. Others are keeping them while engaging with their investee companies to encourage lower emissions. How does divestment impact a portfolio s growth potential? Is it really a viable solution for institutions under pressure to create returns? What is the best way to evaluate a portfolio s carbon risk? Is it feasible to create a low-carbon investment strategy and not damage returns? Kathy Mulvey, Executive Director, EIRIS Conflict Risk Network Eric Haskel, Managing Director, Porfolio Manager, Perella Weinberg (Rockefeller Brothers Fund) Adam Kanzer, Managing Director and Director of Shareholder Advocacy, Domini Social Investments Patrick Bolton, Columbia Business School - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), co-author, Hedging Climate Risk Moderator: Hugh Wheelan, Managing Editor, Responsible Investor RI Insight: Green Bonds 12:15pm-1:00pm Networking Lunch 1:00pm-2:00pm 2:00pm-3:00pm Green bonds: how the finance works and what they fund Case studies from the new marketplace Eila Krievi, Director, Head of Capital Markets Department, European Investment Bank Mark Kim, Chief Financial Officer, DC Water Stephen Liberatore, Lead Portfolio Manager - SRI Fixed Income, TIAA-CREF Asset Management Nicholas Pfaff, Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and Secretary, Green Bonds Principles Moderator: Lindsay Smart, Head of UK and US Markets, Vigeo Green Bonds: Issuers perspectives This panel of green bond issuers will discuss their motivations for issuing green bonds and how they incorporate the Green Bonds Principles into their process. Is there resistance from investors and consultants? If so, what is the best way to overcome it. Bettina Redway, Deputy Treasurer, State of California Mark Peternell, Vice President Sustainability, Regency Centers Nancy Kyte, Senior Portfolio Manager, Export Development Canada Laura Tlaiye, Sustainability Advisor Capital Markets Department, World Bank Treasury Moderator: Suzanne Buchta, Managing Director Green Debt Capital Markets Americas, Bank of America Merrill Lynch 3:35pm-4:05pm 4:05pm-4:30pm 4:30pm-5:30pm Networking Coffee Break - Sponsored by Pax World Management Keynote - Scott Stringer, Comptroller, City of New York New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer is responsible for oversight and administration of the City s five pension funds, totalling $150bn. What is the real state of play of corporate governance and engagement? Is investor oversight of companies getting better or worse? In the US, the SEC appears to have been pushing back on shareholder resolutions while encouraging more active governance: what gives? Is engagement between companies and investors on important issues getting better or worse? What are the hot button governance issues across North and Latin America? Cambria Allen, Corporate Governance Director, UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust Jeffrey Gordon, Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School and Co-Director, Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership Robert E. McGarrah, Jr., Counsel, AFL-CIO Office of Investment Moderator: Paul Hodgson, Independent Governance Consultant 3:00pm-4:00pm 4:00pm Are green and ESG bonds about to take off in North America Lenora Suki, Senior Product Strategist, Bloomberg LP Douglass Sims, Director of Strategy and Finance, Center for Market Innovation at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Carol Kostik, Deputy Comptroller for Public Finance, New York City Ann-Marie Griffith, Head of Credit Portfolio Management, APG US Moderator: Hugh Wheelan, Managing Editor, Responsible Investor Close of Conference 5:30pm-7:00pm Networking Cocktail Party 4 5

5 318 delegates over two days participated in highlevel debate from some of the leading responsible investment and corporate sustainability figures at the RI Americas 2014 Conference at the Bloomberg MPR Auditorium, New York on December 9th & 10th RI Americas 2014 was produced by Responsible Investor which is published by Response Global Media Limited. 6

6 As Responsible Investor s sixth-annual RI Americas conference took place on December 9/10 in New York at the headquarters of Bloomberg, there were clear parallels to the other climate-focused gathering underway further south in the Americas: the twentieth session of the United Nations Conference of the Parties, or COP20, in Lima, Peru. The two-day conference convened panel discussions before 350 asset owners, consultants, money managers and others to discuss, among other issues the future of financial reporting, the question of a carbon bubble, and what sustainable, long-term capitalism might look like. The world s government ministers and negotiators in Lima were wrapping up their own discussions around the possibility of a shared climate framework. Their intention: by the time the COP20 re-gathers next year in Paris, a framework can be officially agreed. At RI Americas, however, there was little talk of how government officials might be planning to build more sustainable markets. Instead, speaker after speaker agreed that in the face of political gridlock, outsize pressure on politicians from business-oriented lobbying groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a general lack of political will and resources, the onus to affect change rests squarely on the shoulders of asset owners. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, we ve moved into the era of fiduciary capitalism, said Eric Wetlaufer, senior managing Institutional director and global head of public market investments at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), in his opening keynote to an audience that included over 65 asset owners. Institutional asset owners are the main players now, and they must place the needs of their fiduciaries above all other interests. In the following panel discussion, Robert Dannhauser, head of capital markets policy for the Charlottesville, Virginia-based CFA Institute, noted that his organization s members have registered their disappointment in the absence of asset owners are the main players now, and they must place the needs of their fiduciaries above all other interests u From left to right: Robert Dannhauser, Rob Lake, Remy Briand, Eric Wetlaufer 7

7 regulation meant to spur responsible investing in the U.S. The regulatory vacuum has left members asking how best to approach their own efforts to make their investments more sustainable, he adds. His advice to institutional investors: describe, as specifically as possible, the funds philosophy regarding responsible investing and present it to asset managers. Do this, he says, and the market will start to follow: It s the asset owner who really drives the commercial motivation to make the change, Dannhauser said. Absent any regulatory pressure, the CPPIB has worked to establish what It s the asset owner Wetlaufer expects will be an who really drives the investment portfolio better commercial positioned to weather the long motivation to make term sustainably. The CPPIB is the change delving deeper into invested companies strategies to better understand and challenge them, Wetlaufer explained. Their equity positions are increasingly concentrated; the scheme currently has an average position of about $500m each across roughly 200 companies. In 10 portfolio companies, the fund owns more than 10 percent of the shares and has a seat on the board of directors: We re seeing our future with the companies as more of a platform, Watlaufer says. We want to invest in platforms we can grow with, and be a long-time capital provider for. u Left: Will Oulton 8

8 As has long been the case, varying interpretations of fiduciary responsibility continue to impede some institutional investors uptake of sustainabilityfocused strategies. But Will Oulton, global head of responsible investment at U.K.-based First State Investments, says that may finally be changing. He says that Professor John Kay s review of the U.K. equity markets [ publications/kay-review-of-uk-equity-marketsand-long-term-decision-makingimplementation-progress-report] has triggered a revisiting of the legal definition of fiduciary duty, with a conclusion published a few months ago: the goal of major It would be good if asset owners should not, in fact, the U.S. could have make it their primary goal to its own fiduciary maximize returns in the short term. duty reformation The narrative around this is changing quickly now, Oulton said, adding: It would be good if the U.S. could have its own fiduciary duty reformation. This relative difficulty of effectively pushing integration of environmental and social factors into U.S. managers investment processes was a recurring theme at the conference. Mike Krzus, an integrated reporting consultant and co-author of One Report and The Integrated Reporting u John Schaetzl and Alka Banerjee L to R: Marc Robert, Mary Jane McQuillen, Michael Jantzi, Mamadou-Abou Sarr, Lorenzo Berho 9

9 Cambria Allen and Paul Hodgson Movement warned that integrated reporting initiatives are foundering, especially in the U.S.: The IIRC has no presence in the U.S., he says. Too many clients don t know the IIRC exists. But here, too, pointed out John Schaetzl, a veteran investor and member of the supervisory board of the Access to Medicine Foundation, the onus is back on the asset owners to correctly align investment priorities. investors can ask questions about the sustainability knowledge of the CEO, so then the CEO knows he or she has to be prepared Institutional Investors can start the virtuous cycle, Schaetzl said. These investors can ask questions about the sustainability knowledge of the CEO, so then the CEO knows he or she has to be prepared for that. In an afternoon panel on corporate governance and engagement, for that Robert McGarrah, Jr., counsel for the AFL-CIO Office of Investment, lamented the lack of movement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on corporate governance issues like executive pay. He attributed the inaction to the ever-growing political influence of corporate interests, most centrally represented by the Chamber of Commerce: That s why we re seeing these coalitional efforts, from major investors like BlackRock and Vanguard, McGarrah noted, who he said are demonstrating an increasing willingness to sign on to movements like the Ceres-led effort this fall to encourage governments to move forward on carbon pricing. On other issues, too, panelists registered their lack of faith in government actors, especially in the U.S. Asked whether she believes a rule akin to the U.K. Stewardship Code [ Work/Codes-Standards/Corporategovernance/UK-Stewardship-Code.aspx] could prove helpful in the U.S., Cambria Allen, corporate governance director for the $61 billion UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust, shook her head. Our system is too adversarial for that, Allen said. Jeffrey Gordon, the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and codirector of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Leadership, argued that not only would a version of the Stewardship Code not work in the U.S. - it s been of no value in the U.K. The real issue here is not [corporate] governance, it s government, Gordon said. The reason firms are sitting on a $1 trillion balance sheet is because of economic uncertainty. Of course they re going to play the short term. u 10

10 Ontario Securities Commission director tells RI Americas 2014 about women directors comply-or-explain rule introduction from January 1, 2015 The gender disparity within Canada s corporate boardrooms is about to get a lot more visible. The Ontario Securities Commission s (OSC) comply or explain rule requiring companies to disclose the number of women on their boards of directors, along with targets for reaching equal representation, received ministerial approval after having been finalized in October. This amendment to the OSC s corporate governance guidelines will take effect from December 31, 2014 just in time to apply to the 2015 crop of Canadian companies annual reports. This is an economic imperative for our country, and for any country, said Maureen Jensen, executive director and chief administrative officer at the OSC, in a panel discussion on board diversity at the RI Americas 2014 conference in New York: If you bifurcate your population, I think you re discounting an enormous value. Jensen said the OSC rejected enforced quotas in favor of the comply or explain approach, which will compel companies to explain their silence on the issue if they fail to report on plans to improve gender balance both within boards and top management. The rule will apply to the roughly 1,600 firms listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange; all provinces and territories have signed on to participate except British Columbia and Alberta. Though it imposes no quotes or penalties, Jensen said the new guidelines have proved contentious within some of Canada s many commodity companies, many of whom have complained that they can find no qualified women to draw from in making board and executive officer appointments. During the panel discussion, Jensen explained that the conversation around the amendment started a year ago, when the Ontario Minister of Finance approached the OSC, expressing concern over the gender imbalances evident within Canadian corporations top brass. A 2013 survey by the OSC, which compiled the responses of roughly 1,000 TSX issuers, revealed that 57 percent of respondents had no women directors, and that a mere 3 percent of companies boasted a woman chair of the board. After the survey, the Canadian Board Diversity Council calculated that at the country s current rate, Canada would not see gender parity in its boardrooms before Our conclusion was that we wouldn t get anywhere without imposing some rule to push this into the marketplace, Jensen said. Specifically, the new rule will require companies to report on the number of women on their boards and in executive officer positions, their policies regarding the representation of women on the board, how they approach board turnover, and their tactics for encouraging the recruitment and advancement of qualified female employees. Jensen added that by next summer, the OSC will commence a review of company disclosures and publish a report on gender-equity progress. She stressed that all of the disclosed information and OSC analysis will be made public and easy to mine. Zach Oleksiuk - BlackRock and Vicki Kramer - 30% Coalition We think sunshine is the best disinfectant, she said, so everyone s going to be able to see the performance of each company. 11

11 Bob Litterman, Geeta Aiyer, Wendy Hershey, Eric Roston The second day of the conference opened with an exploration of the carbon conundrum the question of whether an eventual official price on carbon will significantly affect the value of certain stocks, or whole sectors. Bob Litterman, chairman of the risk committee at Kepos Capital and former risk manager for Goldman Sachs, explained that this expectation of a tighter price has led to what he calls the equity risk premium puzzle that is, investors sense a risk aversion around carbon, but few are Long-term investors have an important role; they need to go around governments and just say, We re going to price actually acting on it. Once again, it s up to asset owners to take control, he said. Long-term investors have an important role; they need to go around governments and just say, We re going to price carbon, carbon, Litterman said. He added that investors in the aviation industry, especially, should push the charge, since that sector would have much to gain from ensuring that other industries reduce their carbon output, so that airplanes can continue emitting CO 2 at their current rate. u 12

12 Conference hears how New York City is planning what could be the US largest muni green bond program As swiftly as the green bond market has grown in 2014, it s not showing any signs of slowing in Quite the contrary: Early indicators point to a rapid expansion in the U.S. s municipal green bond market next year, with New York City planning to join the green bond fray, and a program from the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council encouraging other cities to follow suit. The benefit to the city is in that it would increase our investor base, she said. No one s saying it would save us money. Speaking as part of the same panel discussion at RI Americas, Douglass Sims, director of strategy and finance for the Center of Market Innovation at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the non-profit environmental advocacy group, said his organization is working to ensure that other cities take New York s example to heart. Speaking at the RI Americas conference in New York, Carol Kostik, deputy comptroller for the city s public finance department, laid out plans for what could quickly become the country s largest municipal green bond program. Kostik said that the city s Municipal Water Finance Authority alone issues roughly $1.5 billion in bonds a year, and that a significant proportion could easily be labeled green. NYC s green bond program, a joint effort between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer both have to sign off on all city bond issuance has been in formation for about a year, Kostik said. The office is currently in the process of establishing its own standards for what constitutes green, and has formed a working group to examine other issuers criteria and meet with key investors. Kostik noted that the question of whether the new green bond program could prove costly to the city has sparked a lively debate within her office. Lenora Suki - Bloomberg, Carol Kostic - New York City We re trying to create an accelerator for other cities who don t know how to be in this space, Sims said. There s lots of demand for understanding how to do it, even in red [Republican] states but not a lot of know-how or national support. Sims added that the NRDC will help municipal bond issuers share best practices and other advice related to green bond issuers. He pointed to the green bank space as one that has successfully organized meetings among country and state practitioners to spread the uptake of its model: We re replicating that for municipal bankers in this country. 13

13 Eila Krievi - European Investment Bank, Mark Kim - DC Water Another way investors are helping to tilt the conversation toward responsible investing and spur the creation of new green investment products, is through their mushrooming interest in green bonds. In two panel discussions on green bonds, bond insurers DC Water, Regency Centers (a real estate investment trust based in Jacksonville, Florida), and the State of California acknowledged that a central motivation in the decision to issue a green bond was the desire to reach a new group of investors that is, the SRI contingent. Mark Kim, chief financial officer of DC Water, said he and his colleagues understood that a whole separate pool of capital wouldn t have invested in DC water if it weren t for our green bond. He said that the municipality s recent bond received $1 billion in orders, and $100 million of that came from socially responsible investors. u Nancy Kyte - Export Canada, Mark Peternell - Regency Centers, Suzanne Buchta - Bank of America Merrill Lynch 14

14 Like many of the rest of the conference s panelists, these issuers seemed to agree: in the effort to commit to a common vision of how to fight climate change and achieve a version of capitalism focused on the long term, it ll be up to institutional investors to point the market in the direction it needs to go. n Douglass Sims - NRDC, Ann-Marie Griffith - APG Joe Keefe - Pax World 15

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